SOLUTION: How do you find the x-intercept of a line when it's given in slope-intercept form?

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Question 400091: How do you find the x-intercept of a line when it's given in slope-intercept form?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Hi


One finds the x-intercept by exploring when y = 0
0 = mx + b
-b/m = x, the x coordinate of the x-intercept
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